TL;DR: Nvidia announced months ago that it would stop releasing Game Ready drivers for the almost decade-old Kepler graphics cards this year, but it seems today is the day. The Keplers are absent from the list of GPUs supported in the latest update. The main stories in the latest Nvidia driver release are the optimization…
After looking at the last few generations of Intel and AMD CPUs separately, here’s our final installment in the gaming performance progress series. In this article we’ll be comparing a decade of AMD and Intel CPUs head to head. For those of you who missed the first few articles, this all began with a look…
Enlarge / The BMW i4 M50 is the first BMW EV to benefit from the attention of the company’s M division.Jonathan Gitlin MUNICH—For all of my existence, the BMW 3 Series has been the default choice for an upmarket compact sedan with good driving dynamics. Or it was until a few years ago, when the…
Enlarge / Beers sold by the Minocqua Brewing Company. A Wisconsin brewery that says it’s fed up with “anti-science,” “Tucker Carlson-watching zombies” is funding a series of lawsuits against school boards that do not follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on COVID-19. So far, the Minocqua Brewing Company’s Super PAC has helped parents…
Unclear if it’s bundling strategy guides — Annual subscription price might be worth it for certain buyers. Steve Haske – Oct 11, 2021 11:19 pm UTC If you’re still searching for a PS5 and are a Best Buy customer, your ship may have just come in—that is, if you’re willing to spend an extra $200…
Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Want to tune out the outside world? Amazon is throwing a one-day blowing sale on Sony’s excellent wireless noise canceling headphones, including our absolute favorite noise-canceling headphones period. We saw some these prices earlier in the month as well, but now they’re back with friends for another opportunity to snag some superb…
Apple The best price of the year is back for Apple’s 13.3-inch M1 Macbook Air with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Best Buy is selling this awesome macOS laptop for $800. That’s a whopping $200 off the list price. We reviewed this MacBook, giving it 4.5 out of 5 stars and an Editors’…
Cloud drive services like Google Drive and OneDrive are handy and all, but sometimes you just need to wrap up a few files to send out in an email. Conversely, you’ll sometimes come across those ZIP and RAR files that you need to open up for yourself. In either case, a data-compression tool can help…
Kevin Casper/IDG Google has begun pushing out version 96.0.4664.110 of its Chrome desktop browser to address a security vulnerability that is being actively exploited by hackers. Fortunately, the fix is an easy one: Ensure that your browser is up to date, then simply restart it to launch the patched, up-to-date version. Google’s blog post explains…
In context: Microsoft’s handy “Windows Subsystem for Linux” (WSL) tool has been available in some capacity for years now. WSL allows users to run a full Linux environment of their choosing — and your favorite Linux utilities and software — directly inside Windows. No need to worry about dual booting or setting up a resource-intensive…